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A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling cover

Volume 2 provides insights into stories fostering the idea of business (and not necessarily business itself). It focuses specifically on history — contributing to the current debates within management and organizational history around the idea of 'the historic turn'. It reflects on the idea of business and beyond; could there be more to history and business storytelling than what has previously been accepted in the field? This book sets out to explore a diverse array of alternative modes and multiple ways of storying organizations. The editors intentionally sought to involve an international network of authors with diverse storytelling accounts of history as a way of helping build out this new storytelling paradigm in a diverse and inclusive ethic. As a result, this volume showcases a broad spectrum of critical storytelling from geographically diverse authors working in universities, small businesses, and public service throughout Brazil, Canada, Finland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. To reflect these dynamics, and for the stories in this volume to fit together, chapters were organized into three themes: stories of processing history, tales of history-as-method, and narratives of history through a business opportunity.

Sample Chapter(s)
Introduction
Chapter 1: Circuits of Organizational Stories: Wineries, History, and the Performance of Place

Contents:

  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Circuits of Organizational Stories: Wineries, History, and the Performance of Place (Terrance G Weatherbee and Donna Sears)
  • Haunted Houses: Addressing Archival Silences in Business (Hi)Storytelling (Gabrielle Durepos and Amon Barros)
  • Women at the Margins: Tales from the Agribusiness Field in Nova Scotia (Clara Bullock, Tasha Richard, and Nicholous M Deal)
  • Humans as Horses: A Revisionist Approach to the Conventional Foundational Story about "Management" (David Weir)
  • The Atlantic Schools of Business: An Autoanthology (Albert J Mills, Gabrielle Durepos, Amy Thurlow, and Jean Helms Mills)
  • Disrupting the Historic Narrative: Writing My Subjective Self into the Story of French-Canadian Feminist Icon, Madeleine Parent (1918–2012) (Kristin S Williams)
  • Uncovering A New Dimension of Entrepreneurial Institutional Work Through Collaborative Autoethnography (Catherine Moring, Caleb Lugar, Joseph H Holland, Hannah Hoang, Grace Cartwright, and Lydia Johnsey)
  • Collaborative Story Craft as a Tool for Inclusive Workplace Practices (Tricia Cleland Silva and Paulo de Tarso Fonseca Silva)
  • Entrepreneurship is "Beyond" History: Poetic Storytelling and Nonlinear Time at the University of Waterloo (Ryan T MacNeil, Santana Ochoa Briggs, Alisha E Christie, and Connor Sheehan)
  • "It is a Heritage Which is Alive Still Today": History and Cultural Heritage as Symbolic Resources in Company Storytelling (Pia Olsson and Terhi Ainiala)
  • Prospecting the Past for the Future: Storytelling in Making an Emerging Innovative Business Domain (Ida A Parkkinen, Hanna P Lehtimäki, and Ilpo A Helén)
  • Index

Readership: The primary market for this MRW are academics who work in the disciplines of Business, Management, Organizational Communication, and gender and diversity studies. The secondary market are academics currently teaching in business management, organizational behavior, and organizational communication at the post-secondary level.